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This was a contributed post by Steven M. Schiff, MD, FACC, Medical Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, and CMIO at Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center. If you’re interested in more content like this, visit the Healthcare section of the blog.

As far back as I can remember, there was never a time when I didn’t want to be a physician. It’s a choice in which there is no equivocation: either you want to be a doctor or you don’t. It encompasses your life—there is no punching the clock, no walking away. Illness doesn’t take vacations, […]